Jeremiah 51:55 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁵ For the Lord is laying Babylon waste and stilling her loud clamor. Their waves roar like mighty waters; the sound of their clamor resounds,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁵ because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁵ For the Lord is destroying Babylon and laying her waste and stilling her great voice [the hum of the city's life]. And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters, the noise of their voices is raised up [like the tramping of an army].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁵ For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ The LORD is destroying Babylon and silencing her outcry, whose roar is like the crushing waves, a deafening crash.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁵ For the Lord has despoiled Babylon, and he has perished the great voice from her. And their wave will make a sound like many waters. Their voice has uttered a noise.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁵ Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste and destroyed out of her the great voice. And their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise.

Jeremiah 51:55 Cross References

Psalm 124:2

if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when our enemies attacked us,

Psalm 124:4

then the flood would have swept us away; the torrent would have gone over us;

Psalm 18:4

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me;

Psalm 65:7

You silence the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

Isaiah 15:1

An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

Isaiah 17:13

[[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]] he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and like whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Jeremiah 25:10

And I will banish from them the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.

Ezekiel 26:3

therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am against you, O Tyre! I will hurl many nations against you, as the sea hurls its waves.

Luke 21:25

“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.